Luise Amtsberg

Luise Amtsberg
Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 January 2022
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
MinisterAnnalena Baerbock
Preceded byBärbel Kofler
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born
Luise von Jackowski[1]

(1984-10-17) 17 October 1984 (age 40)
Greifswald, East Germany
Nationality Germany
Political party
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alma materUniversity of Kiel
Websiteluise-amtsberg.de

Luise Amtsberg (née von Jackowski,[1] born 17 October 1984) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2013.[2] She contested the constituency of Kiel in 2013 and 2017.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Amtsberg has been serving as the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.[3][4]

Early life and education

Amtsberg grew up in the East Berlin district of Karlshorst. In 2004, she graduated from high school in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony.

From 2004 to 2013, Amtsberg studied Islamic Studies, Political Science and Theology at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.[2] During her studies, she served as AStA chairwoman from 2006. In 2013, she graduated with a master's thesis on feminism in Islam using the example of the Palestinian women's movement.

Political career

From 2009 to 2012 Amtsberg was a member of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, where she served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on refugees and Neo-Nazism.[5] From 2012 to 2013, she served as chairwoman of the Kiel Greens.[2]

In the 2013 elections, Amtsberg was elected into the Bundestag for the Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein. In parliament, she has been a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs since 2014. In this capacity, she is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on refugees. From 2014 until 2017, she also served on the Committee on Petitions. In 2017, she ran again on list position 1 and as a direct candidate in the constituency of Kiel 5 and was re-elected.

In addition to her committee assignments, Amtsberg has been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2014. She has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2018) and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and the Palestinian territories (2013–2017). She is also a member of the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States.

In December 2014, Amtsberg and Katrin Göring-Eckardt visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.[6]

Under the umbrella of the German Parliaments' godparenthood program for human rights activists, Amtsberg has been raising awareness for the work of persecuted dissidents Narges Mohammadi of Iran, Günal Kurşun of Turkey, and Issa Amro of Palestine.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Amtsberg led her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration; the co-chairs from the other parties were Boris Pistorius and Joachim Stamp.[7]

Other activities

Personal life

Amtsberg is married.[5] In 2016, she gave birth to a son.[10] The family lives in Berlin.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Amtsberg, Luise Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein.
  2. ^ a b c Luise Amtsberg, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Bundestag.de
  3. ^ Henning Baethge (17 December 2021), Neues Amt für Grüne: Kielerin Luise Amtsberg wird Menschenrechtsbeauftragte des Bundes Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag.
  4. ^ Michael Kluth (5 January 2022), Grüne Bundestagsabgeordnete: Luise Amtsberg aus Kiel ist Deutschlands neue Menschenrechtsbeauftragte Kieler Nachrichten.
  5. ^ a b Amtsberg: Sie kämpft hart für die Sache Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 23 September 2017.
  6. ^ Die Fraktionsvorsitzende von Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, besuchte Jordanien[permanent dead link‍] press release of 9 December 2014, German Embassy to Jordan, Amman.
  7. ^ Lakämper, Britt-Marie. "SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel" (in German). Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. ^ Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt Bundestag, press release of 17 February 2022.
  9. ^ Board German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG)
  10. ^ Ulrike Schuster (30 April 2017), Eine Abgeordnete wird gefragt und gehört Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  11. ^ Rebekka Wiese (24 September 2018), Als junge Mutter im Bundestag: Wenn der Kinderwagen im Plenarsaal gegen die Geschäftsordnung verstößt Der Spiegel.